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Laparoscopic adrenalectomy for Conn's syndrome
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Laparoscopic adrenalectomy for Conn's syndrome
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak.
2006 Jan.
Abstract
Laparoscopic adrenalectomy is now used worldwide to resect adrenal adenomas and other adrenal tumors recently introduced in Pakistan. Two cases of endocrine hypertension, due to Conn s syndrome, undergoing laparoscopic adrenalectomy for the first time here, are reported.
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